{"id":22270,"date":"2014-10-24T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2014-10-24T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:01:54","slug":"11749-ukraine-justice-minister-introduces-civic-lustration-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/11749-ukraine-justice-minister-introduces-civic-lustration-council","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Justice Minister Introduces Civic Lustration Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyiv, October 24, 2014<\/i><\/b> – Ukraine has chosen candidates to the Civic Lustration Council within the structure of the Ministry of Justice. The Civic Lustration Council was established to hear public complaints about alleged abuse of power by Ukrainian officials. This was stated at Ukraine Crisis Media Center by Pavlo Petrenko and Yegor Sobolyev, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine and Head of the NGO Civic Lustration Committee, respectively. The selected candidates are civic activists with experience in anti-corruption activities, and will undergo background checks on their own history before their official appointment. A handful of nominees to the Council were then introduced to the public.<\/p>\n

Lustration is already starting to go into effect in Ukraine, said Minister Petrenko. \u201cPeople were already dismissed based on Article 3 according to the law.\u201d The Minister expects that corrupt officials in the police forces may be dismissed next. The creation of the Civic Lustration Council will be a further step in the right direction, insuring that Ukrainian public officials are held accountable to the public.\u00a0 The activist nominees to the Council have \u201cmany years of experience in combating corruption,\u201d stated Sobolyev. Once the nominees pass inspections, they will take their seat on the Council and take complaints from the public about officials.<\/p>\n

Both speakers stressed that journalists play a key role in both examining the nominees to the Council and monitoring the body\u2019s future work. \u201cWe suggest that all concerned citizens and journalists perform a check-up on them,\u201d said Petrenko. \u201cIf there are any questions to the Council we will take these questions next week,\u201d he stated. In addition, Petrenko said that the doors are not closed for applications to the Council. The Ministry of Justice has received more than 500 applications and is still looking for more. \u201cThe more experts we have,\u201d Petrenko said, \u201cthe more they get nationwide trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minister Petrenko stated that the creation of the Civic Lustration Council is long overdue, and should have been done 20 years ago following Ukraine\u2019s independence. People\u2019s frustrations are evident with the proliferation of vigilante justice against politicians and officials who are perceived as corrupt. \u201cI cannot say this is a good phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon that is the result of the demands of society,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t do this the situation would become even worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the creation of the Council, \u201cevery Ukrainian can become a real people\u2019s controller and check on the assets of the official that lives next to them,\u201d stated Petrenko. The process of lustration will continue to ensure the fair and transparent governance of Ukraine, and will eventually reach every level of Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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